A Liberated Woman

While on a ski vacation at Mt. Ascutney in Vermont a few years ago, we had the opportunity to demo some Canon skiboards. The whole family fell in love with them!! My 18 year old son ordered a pair last year but didn't get to use them much as the ski conditions in Pennsylvania where we live weren't too good. This past winter (99-00) I purchased a pair of Hart Free Boost for myself (fully intending to share with the rest of the family..yeh, right.

I just learned to ski 6 years ago and have done OK but always ski on the cautious side. Having a bad knee always kept me looking at the harder slopes but too chicken to adventure down them worrying about not being able to turn sufficiently and keep control.

When I started out this past season, I swapped back and forth between my new Hart skiboards and my skiis. On New Year's Eve I decided to go strictly skiboards. I don't think I will ever go back to my skiis again!!! What a blast! We live 10 minutes from a local mountain (Ski Roundtop) and I became obsessed with coming home from work and hitting the slopes!! My confidence level sky rocketed and I found myself doing slopes I would never go near on skiis!. The ability to turn quickly and the stability kept me on my feet doing runs I never dreamed I could do.

One evening my 21 year old daughter went with me (she using skiis) and after an hour she asked if we could switch. After one run she was hooked!! Of course there I was on the skiis back to my old cautious self again. Needless to say, I recently bought another pair of Hart's for her to use next season!! I don't want to stuck without mine again!!

As I mentioned before, my son also has a pair of Canon's. He has been an avid and kamakazi skier since he was 12... the no fear kind of kid. This past season he also had the opportunity to hit the slopes frequently on his skiboards and has the same comment: "I have no interest in ever using my skiis again!!"

As a side note, I am the 43 year old mother of 2 children mentioned above. I took great pride in being the only "old lady" on the slopes at Ski Roundtop and on a trip to Belleayre in NY blasting down the mountain on skiboards. Like everyone else's reviews I've read, there are many questions and comments on lifts and in lines. I tell everyone what a blast they are and how they have taken me from a so-so skier to a person obsessed!!!

Thanks so much to whoever came up with the idea of skiboards! I feel like a liberated woman!!

Marcia